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...sleazy Chicago scenes by which he is known. Pontificated New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell: "Between the minor if vaguely haunting tightness of those minutiae and the ripe, fluent graciousness of the present work, a vast difference publishes itself." Still this side of graciousness but studied with uncommon depth were Aaron Bohrod's new subjects: poor whites, exhausted interiors of tourist cabins, a trailer camp, a sidewalk in New Orleans...
Your problem is a not uncommon one. I had somewhat the same trouble when I was in college myself. It is a matter of common knowledge that prolonged concentration on a small dull colored object, particularly when accompanied by a low murmuring sound, is a very effective method of hypnosis. In my day I used to combat the effects by thinking of something particularly ghastly, like boiled turnips. But now, with college food so good, you will have to think of something else. There is an ugly rumor, however, that a dish called Vienna "Lead" Roll is still being served...
...Harry always noticed a lot of things that other people never thought about. It came to him that his experience in Vera Cruz was specially planned by God as part of his training. In lonely sea-watches he figured it out. God had given him his common sense and uncommon luck to enable him some day to sail out across the Black Ocean where no living man has been and bring back the truth. When he got stuck in the fo'c's'le hatch of a foundering old tub Harry knew his drowning...
Originally the plan was to use the ax on Chesapeake, retaining Alleghany, which was the company the "Babes" bought from old Mr. Ball. But of the two, Chesapeake had a far better name with the public, and Messrs. Young, Kirby & Kolbe have demonstrated an uncommon flair for public relations. To newshawks last week Mr. Young handed photostats of the chart used by the Wheeler committee during the Washington hearings on the Van Sweringen empire. Through all holding companies which have been, or would be, segregated or eliminated on completion of the Alleghany-Chesapeake merger, Mr. Young had drawn heavy black...
Attacks on humans by U. S. screech owls are not uncommon. Persons who have had the experience know it is indescribably frightening. The birds have a fiercely protective instinct for their young and the onslaughts usually occur when the young are learning to fly. Some years ago a report in a scientific journal of an attack brought out dozens of letters from Oregon to Ontario to Texas recording similar episodes. One Louisiana Negro was said to have lost an eye. Policemen walking lonely beats are frequent victims...